Wow…what a gods awful film. I have rarely seen a bigger pile of dung and only goes to show what clickbait and media shills will do to try and drive views and revenue.
I came across one of those eye grabbing headlines on the Inverse website that was jammed into my brain by the Google algorithm seeming to key off my love of sci-fi. Well…Inverse is owned by “Bustle” which bought the old trash Gawker sites and has a ton of other “millennial” garbage sites as well. So I should have known.
But I didn’t. So when I saw the headline “The One Sci-Fi Movie You Must See Before It Leaves Netflix” I read through its article proclaiming how great Midnight Special was and then watched it the following weekend.
On the surface you’d think a film with Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Shephard and Adam Driver would be a lock to be good or at least well produced and that the actors would demand quality writing. Not so much.
Never have I watched a film with as many holes and question marks at this. Nothing…literally nothing is explained. Nothing makes sense. Characters show up and leave without explanation. No exposition is provided on anyone. Primary characters divorced but now meeting up? No explanation. Key “bad” guy having left the “ranch” but now providing help to the protagonist? No explanation. Blue light coming out of a child’s eyes? No reason. The earth shaking and splitting when the boy has light out of his eyes? No explanation. Aliens showing up from an alternate dimension? No explanation. And the biggie…the boy with blue eyes born to the divorced couple ends up BEING one of the aliens…How’d that happen?? No explanation.
What a complete, gross example of waste and hubris. This film could not possibly be worse…yet there it is…across the internet proclaiming how great it is with “aggregate critic and public scoring” to back up its claims!! Its a sham…its all a sham. Never…ever…waste your time on this.